At the end of February of the fourth year of Benshi (70 BC), the spring flowers were already blooming in Guanzhong, Central Plains, but the snow in Beiting was about to melt, and the areas with slightly higher altitudes were still covered in silver.

However, the flags of the kings of the Western Regions had already followed the army of the Protector out of Daban City and launched an expedition to the north.

As the representative of the kings of the Western Regions, King Loulan was able to ride around the Dumai and felt extremely majestic.

In previous years, the Huns encountered white and black disasters. In addition to going south to plunder the Han area, they also increased their blackmail in the Western Regions. The Right King once said bluntly that the fifty countries in the Western Regions were his fifty slaves. They either sent cavalry to eat, or sent child servants to ask for cattle and sheep and food. Cheshi and Yanqi, who were closest to the Right Region, were often stabbed, and even though Loulan was far away, they could not escape.

Nowadays, the strategy of the Han Dynasty to rule the Western Regions was different from that of the Huns. The Huns directly robbed them. Although the Han Dynasty also conscripted the troops, Ren Dupu was a reasonable person. He knew that the leeks that grew strongly were good leeks and would not be cut too much. The food and fodder provided by the countries were also paid with silk and cloth, and helped various countries build beacon towers and promote commercial routes, and sent agricultural officials to teach the methods of increasing production. The north and south of the Western Regions have never been so prosperous.

However, the Western Regions were ruled by the Huns for more than a hundred years and were still very afraid of the Shanyu. Until last year's war, Ren Dupu asked the kings to stand at the head of Daban City and saw clearly that the Huns were strong outside and fought. The Great Shanyu personally led tens of thousands of cavalry to fight, but he could not even break the barriers of the Han army. He could only destroy the Pulihou Kingdom to vent his anger. When he returned to his army, he encountered heavy snow again. This is what the Protector said.

"The Huns have returned, and there are no ten remaining one!"

After returning to the Chanyu court with the Xiongnu Khan, he made a big fuss to kill and injure tens of thousands of Han troops in Dongqimi and Daban City.

As a result, all countries south of Daban City were relieved and no longer worried about the revenge of the Huns. After the winter, the Protector sent the kings back to their country, but the King of Loulan was unwilling to return. He handed over all the matters in the country to the Prime Minister, and brought a team of cavalry to the Protector, willing to attack the Huns with him.

"The Huns suffered continuous disasters. If they did not take advantage of their illness, I would not have been able to survive."

Ren Hong led a small number of people, including three thousand Han army infantry and cavalry, and five thousand Western Regions city soldiers. The Xiongnu Shanyu and the right were busy with domestic black disasters and Ding Ling rebellion, and were busy. They just took this opportunity to clean up Hujie, the last country of the Xiongnu in the Western Regions.

Hujie is located in the Altay region of Xinjiang in later generations, separated from Dongqimi by the Great Desert (Gurbantonggut Desert). They walked around the edge of the Great Desert. At first, the world was vast, DJI was connected to the sky, and the Gobi Desert was endless.

After walking for a few days, the scenery ahead changed: the magnificent mountains and plump clouds all the way to the sky, and when you look up, you will see the sky. It is so deep and high, with light blue fields covering the mountains, rivers and roads. The road is winding and winding, accompanied by the streams, and the golden mountain (Altai Mountain) that nurtured the Turks was far away in the northeast.

After passing through the undulating mountains, the road became straight and suddenly became clear. The big river called "Hujie River" (Erchis River) arrived.

"Junkuang, do you know where this river is heading?"

Ren Hong visited Altay in his previous life and also went to Kanas Lake. He still remembers the magnificent scenery of this area. Now Altay is even more wild. He only pointed to the Ertzis River and asked Gan Yanshou, who was named "Yicheng Hou" not long ago. Since he was granted the title of Hou, he may not have been able to stay with Ren Hong for a long time.

"I remember that I drew it on the map."

Gan Yanshou was encouraged and urged by Ren Hong these days and also made up some cultural lessons. He remembered that in Ren Hong's map of the world, the river flowed northward and finally merged into a vast ocean.

"It's the North Sea."

"Isn't Beihai a place where Ziqing Gong sheds the sheep?" Gan Yanshou couldn't tell the difference between the two.

Ren Hongdao: "No, that's just a big lake. The sea that the Hujie River flows into is the real North Sea. The vast sea is dry and the ice is a hundred feet thick, and it never melts all year round. There will be extremely long days, for a day and a night and for a few months. There will be a large lightning in the sky surrounding the Beidou Star."

Looking north, Ren Hong seemed to have seen the aurora of the Arctic Ocean. Near the lower reaches of the Ertzis River are Western Siberia and Ural Mountains. For at least a thousand years, they were bitter and cold places that the Han people would hardly enter.

They couldn't go that far. After walking around the upper reaches of the Ertzis River, they found that the pastures here were empty. Hujie people probably found the Han army heading north in advance and drove the cattle and sheep to evacuate.

The Hujie prisoners captured looked similar to those of the Hu people in the Western Regions, but were not similar to those of the Huns. According to the prisoners' confession, the Hujie king either went to the jungle at the foot of the towering Jinshan Mountain, or went north along the Ertzis River, and hid far away from the Han army.

Ren Hong couldn't help laughing: "Hu Ji Wang is really brave, and he is afraid of me if he is like this?"

King Loulan and others just supported him: "When the guardian is angry, the kings of the Western Regions are afraid; when the residence is peaceful, the northern courtyard will stop. How can the king not be afraid?"

So, is he going to change his name to General Absolutely?

But Hujie is vast and has more than 10,000 victories. If he plays hide and seek with Ren Hong in this world, he is not their opponent. Ren Hong's purpose of this northern expedition is not to kill Hujie. Once the opponent migrates, he will not be easily destroyed.

Ren Hong only had some regrets and failed to meet with King Jiankun Li Ling. He heard that he had passed away in the first year of Yuanting. But regardless of whether Li Ling was still alive, it was these two vassal states that saved the Right Xian King. If they were not eradicated, Beiting would not be able to fight eastward with peace of mind.

As for whether the recovery of the two countries would block the Xiongnu's path toward the west, there is no way to consider so much. It is still a few years before the AD, and it is unknown whether God will be born. The whip that beats the West may not necessarily be the Huns.

Ren Duhu wrote a letter, wrapped it in local birch bark, and handed it to the captured Hujie prisoners, and gave them a few horses to the place where King Hujie was.

"Tell King Hujie that those who obey Han will prosper, and those who oppose Han will perish! Don't think that Hujie will be safe, and that the enemy can go, and I can go too!"

...

Since the snow disaster last year, King Hujie has migrated hundreds of miles downstream of the river, near a huge lake called "Zaisangbo".

King Hujie was one of the members of the "Cangzi" of the Hun royal family, but he was already a distant relative whom he immediately separated, otherwise he would not have been assigned to the remote Hujie to be the king.

Ren Hong probably thought that like the Right Xian King, there were literate Han advisers around the Hun kings. However, the reality was that no one around Hu Jie could be sure of Chinese characters, so he could only read the letter sent by Ren Hong over and over again.

Until the man invited by King Hujie arrived at Zhaisangbo, he was a little Hun king who looked like a Han Chinese. He wore a fox fur on his left and tied hair on his head, but his eyebrows were quite different from those of the Huns. King Hujie immediately went up to greet him.

"King Jiankun has already made it!"

The person who came was Li Ling's son. Li Jiankun, who succeeded King Jiankun three years ago, was adjacent to the territory of Hujie and Jiankun. In fact, it was not adjacent to each other. One of the royal courts on both sides was on the Ertzis River and the other was on the Yenisei River. It was at least two or three thousand miles apart, and there was a towering mountain of gold in the middle.

But Zhaisangbo is the junction of the forces between the two sides. King Hujie and Li Ling are kind and often meet here. After Li Lingang's death, his son Li Jiankun also inherited this point. Last year, the Great Shanyu personally failed to fight and suffered a white disaster. King Hujie guessed that the Han people would definitely attack Hujie, migrate and avoid them, and asked Jiankun for help. If the Han army marched here regardless of the long journey, they would face the elite attacks of the two countries.

It’s good if Li Jiankun arrived, but Hu Jie Wang immediately asked him to see for himself. What was written in the letter from Ren Dudu?

Li Jiankun was born by Li Ling and the Hun princess. He is only over 20 years old and has inherited his father's appearance and knowledge. He laughed at the letter.

"King Hu Jie, do you know what Ren Hong calls you?"

King Hujie looked confused until Li Jiankun pointed the words and said, "He calls you 'Hujie Shanyu'!"

"ah!"

King Hujie was shocked. He had heard of Ren Hong's plan to separate the book at Tiemen Pass back then, and was shocked and knew that the letter was mostly about surrender.

"I am very loyal to the Great Shanyu!"

Li Jiankun raised his hand and saved the letter: "There are only you and me here, why are you afraid of it? Let's see what he said."

It turned out that in the letter, Ren Hongda, criticized Wei Lu's collusion with the Yan family, abolished the eldest son and established the young man, and the Huyan-yi Shanyu's improper position, which led to domestic disagreement and re-emerging war with the Han Dynasty.

For peace between the two countries, the elders who were respected should be regarded as the Shanyu. King Hujie was the right candidate for many years. Just like the later Mongolians, Li Da Khan, only recognized the golden family, the Huns also only recognized the "Son of Heaven" as the "Son of Heaven", because they liked to decorate the golden eagle crown with turquoise, they could be called the turquoise family.

As long as King Hujie is willing to surrender to the Han Dynasty, he will not go to the Han area to be a marquis. The Protector of the Ministry of Representatives submitted a memorial to ask the Emperor to confer King Hujie as the Chanyu, build the Chanyu court under the Jinshan Mountain, seize the right land, and compete with the "fake Chanyu" Huyanyi.

The more King Hujie heard, the more anxious he became. If Ren Hong asked Da Shanyu and the Right Xian King Zhiliao to go, he would probably suspect him. After all, King Hujie also used the excuse of being a far-reaching country and had not attended Longcheng for many years.

"I'm going to ruin this letter!"

Li Jiankun laughed: "King Ji, what this Protector Ren said is not unreasonable."

"Hu no longer dared to enter the Barclays for many years, and he was defeated repeatedly in the Western Regions. Now he has fought to the point where Hujie has come. He just told King Hujie that no matter how far you move, the Han army can find it."

The Han army's ability to raid for a long distance, even if they forgot the crushing defeat of Yizhi's straits during the straits, they should remember the great achievements of Ren Hong in sprinting for two thousand miles, seven battles and seven victories a few years ago.

Li Jiankun expressed his concerns: "This year, we can't expect Shanyu court to come to help. Hu Jie Wang heard that? Taking advantage of the white disaster and black disaster, Ding Ling rebelled and attacked our north by taking advantage of the weak. Wuhuan entered the left land, and Wusun also made moves. Many people starved to death in the country, and those who died were tithing, and those who died were tithing, and those who were tithing in the animal industry were tithing. Hu was very weak, and all the prisoners of all countries were disintegrated, and the attacks and thieves were unreasonable."

In this case, what should we do if the Han army fought north and the Hujie in the Western Regions alone?

Hu Jie and Jiankun are like lips and teeth, and their lips are dead and their teeth are cold. Li Jiankun's family has a complicated relationship with the Han Dynasty. Although his father occasionally missed his homesickness when he was alive, the stronger the Han Dynasty, the more uneasy the Li family became.

Li Jiankun then advised Hu Jie to the king: "It is better to agree to a peace talk with Ren Hong, pretending to be close to the Han Dynasty and delaying time, and I will continue to obey the orders of the Shanyu. Later, Hu Jie will attack Jiankun for the Han Dynasty, and Jiankun will attack Hu Jie for the Hu Jie. You and I come to Zhaisangbo every year to pretend to fight, but in fact they will protect each other. The two countries are far away, and neither the Han nor the Huns can control them."

"In this way, no matter how the Han and the Huns fight, Hujie and Jiankun can protect each other independently from the northwest!"
Chapter completed!